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Open Thread: Effect Of Pope’s Visit?
Now the real excuse for this post is that yesterday, it being a sort of holiday, I made rather merry and neglected to cause a post to be written. Since…
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The Pope’s Bargain. Accept It—If You Dare
Pope Francis told Congress we need to care for the environment. And in people's minds, and in his encyclical Laudato Si', this means at least acknowledging the threat of man-caused…
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This Week In Doom: A Mighty, Doom-Laden Seven Days
Thank You Sir, I'll Have Another Homosexual Activists Tell Kim Davis: 'We Will Kidnap Your Husband, Tie Him Up And Force Him To Watch Us Raping You. We Will Burn…
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The Unknown Fallacy: Inflicting Your Views On Me
https://twitter.com/unknowncomic/status/639899682496454657 So a guy with a paper bag on his head, two holes cut for eyes and one for his pie hole, walks on stage, begins pumping his arms like…
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The Week In Doom: If You Like Your Religion, You Can Keep Your Religion
Law Of The Land! AP: A city clerk in Nuremberg yesterday issued a marriage certificate to a Jew and a German, violating the country's new laws forbidding such unions. Fritz…
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An Exchange with Newsday About Pope Francis
Regular readers will recall that I like to document my interactions with the press, especially the mainstream media. I do this to show the discrepancy from what they are told…
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Notes On Our War. Never Give Up! Never Surrender! More Updates
https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/616622719740719104 We're in the midst of a spiritual (call it political if you need to) war, one for which ultimate victory is assured, but one for which it is just…
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Equality Always Wins
The gloomy, but accurate, words forming today's title were penned by Damon Linker in "How Ireland's gay marriage vote exposes the catch-22 of modern Christianity". That equality always wins is…